Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-17 Thread Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia 
wonderful! congratulations to all!


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Sanket Oswal  wrote:

> Great news!
> Congratulations & Best Wishes! :)
>
> Regards.
> Sanket Oswal.
>
> On 11/16/13, Nitika Tandon  wrote:
> > This is great. Cheers to all those who made this happen!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nitika
> >
> >
> > On 15-Nov-2013, at 6:16 PM, Pranav Curumsey wrote:
> >
> >> Congratulations, this is wonderful!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Gautam John 
> >> wrote:
> >> Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Gautam
> >> 
> >> http://www.akshara.org.in/
> >>
> >>
> >> On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind 
> >> wrote:
> >> > Dear all ,
> >> >
> >> > Some happy news for all of us .
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
> >> > Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 majors points
> in
> >> > our
> >> > interest yesterday
> >> >
> >> > 1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from
> >> > Adobe 's
> >> > softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.
> >> >
> >> > 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
> >> > universal
> >> > access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech
> >> > even in
> >> > Malayalam Language .
> >> >
> >> > 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
> >> >
> >> > Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is
> >> > already
> >> > in media reports.
> >> >
> >> > Read a repotrt in TOI
> >> >
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
> >> >
> >> > The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
> >> > Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
> >> >
> >> > Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
> >> > (http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last to help
>  them
> >> > in
> >> > initiating this change process.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT,
> and
> >> > Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )
> >> > for
> >> > initiating this Change.
> >> >
> >> > ~ regards
> >> > Anivar Aravind
> >> > Secretary
> >> > Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
> >> > http://smc.org.in
> >> > Ph. 09448063780
> >> >
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-17 Thread sibi kanagaraj 
Great news !!

Hope other state governments follow this :)

-Sibi


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Rahmanuddin Shaik wrote:

> Thats a great news.
>
> All the best!
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Anivar Aravind 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all ,
>>
>> Some happy news for all of us .
>>
>>
>> The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
>> Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 majors points in our
>> interest yesterday
>>
>> 1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from Adobe
>> 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.
>>
>> 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
>> universal access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to
>> Speech even in Malayalam Language .
>>
>> 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
>>
>> Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is
>> already in media reports.
>>
>> Read a repotrt in TOI
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
>>
>> The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
>> Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
>>
>> Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (
>> http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last to help  them
>> in initiating this change process.
>>
>> Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
>> Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
>> initiating this Change.
>>
>> ~ regards
>>  Anivar Aravind
>> Secretary
>> Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
>> http://smc.org.in
>> Ph. 09448063780
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-17 Thread Sanket Oswal 
Great news!
Congratulations & Best Wishes! :)

Regards.
Sanket Oswal.

On 11/16/13, Nitika Tandon  wrote:
> This is great. Cheers to all those who made this happen!
>
> Regards,
> Nitika
>
>
> On 15-Nov-2013, at 6:16 PM, Pranav Curumsey wrote:
>
>> Congratulations, this is wonderful!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Gautam John 
>> wrote:
>> Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gautam
>> 
>> http://www.akshara.org.in/
>>
>>
>> On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind 
>> wrote:
>> > Dear all ,
>> >
>> > Some happy news for all of us .
>> >
>> >
>> > The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
>> > Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 majors points in
>> > our
>> > interest yesterday
>> >
>> > 1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from
>> > Adobe 's
>> > softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.
>> >
>> > 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
>> > universal
>> > access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech
>> > even in
>> > Malayalam Language .
>> >
>> > 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
>> >
>> > Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is
>> > already
>> > in media reports.
>> >
>> > Read a repotrt in TOI
>> > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
>> >
>> > The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
>> > Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
>> >
>> > Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
>> > (http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last to help  them
>> > in
>> > initiating this change process.
>> >
>> > Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
>> > Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )
>> > for
>> > initiating this Change.
>> >
>> > ~ regards
>> > Anivar Aravind
>> > Secretary
>> > Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
>> > http://smc.org.in
>> > Ph. 09448063780
>> >
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-16 Thread Yohann Thomas 
Congrats & kudos to all those who contributed to make this possible!!


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas 
That is a great news Anivar, wish all the states follow in footsteps of
Kerala. SCERT. Congratulations to you and the team who was working closely
with them

Kind Regards,
Dhaval
On 15 Nov 2013 13:03, "Anivar Aravind"  wrote:

> Sorry for the typos** earlier
>
>
> Dear all ,
>
> Some happy news for all of us .
>
>
> The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
> Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 major points in our
> interest yesterday
>
> 1. SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
> Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed fonts.
>
> 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
> universal access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to
> Speech even in Malayalam Language .
>
> 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
>
> Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already
> in media reports.
>
> Read a report in TOI
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
>
> The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
> Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
>
> Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (
> http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last few months to
> help  them in initiating this change process.
>
> Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
> Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
> initiating this Change.
>
> ~ regards
> Anivar Aravind
> Secretary
> Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
> http://smc.org.in
> Ph. 09448063780
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Vishnu T 
Dear Anivar,

Congratulations to you, others in the SMC team and officials who are behind
this initiative!! Hope to hear about the official order.

Let the Knowledge Go around  :)

Best,
Vishnu


On 15 November 2013 18:33, Anivar Aravind  wrote:

> Sorry for the typos** earlier
>
>
> Dear all ,
>
> Some happy news for all of us .
>
>
> The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
> Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 major points in our
> interest yesterday
>
> 1. SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
> Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed fonts.
>
> 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
> universal access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to
> Speech even in Malayalam Language .
>
> 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
>
> Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already
> in media reports.
>
> Read a report in TOI
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
>
> The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
> Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
>
> Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (
> http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last few months to
> help  them in initiating this change process.
>
> Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
> Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
> initiating this Change.
>
> ~ regards
> Anivar Aravind
> Secretary
> Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
> http://smc.org.in
> Ph. 09448063780
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Anivar Aravind 
Sorry for the typos** earlier


Dear all ,

Some happy news for all of us .


The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 major points in our
interest yesterday

1. SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed fonts.

2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in universal
access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech even
in Malayalam Language .

3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .

Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already
in media reports.

Read a report in TOI
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms

The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards

Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (
http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last few months to
help  them in initiating this change process.

Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
initiating this Change.

~ regards
Anivar Aravind
Secretary
Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
http://smc.org.in
Ph. 09448063780
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Rahmanuddin Shaik 
Thats a great news.

All the best!


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Anivar Aravind wrote:

> Dear all ,
>
> Some happy news for all of us .
>
>
> The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
> Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 majors points in our
> interest yesterday
>
> 1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from Adobe
> 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.
>
> 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
> universal access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to
> Speech even in Malayalam Language .
>
> 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
>
> Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already
> in media reports.
>
> Read a repotrt in TOI
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
>
> The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
> Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
>
> Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (
> http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last to help  them in
> initiating this change process.
>
> Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
> Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
> initiating this Change.
>
> ~ regards
>  Anivar Aravind
> Secretary
> Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
> http://smc.org.in
> Ph. 09448063780
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Pranav Curumsey 
Congratulations, this is wonderful!


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Gautam John  wrote:

> Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> 
> http://www.akshara.org.in/
>
>
> On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind 
> wrote:
> > Dear all ,
> >
> > Some happy news for all of us .
> >
> >
> > The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
> > Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 majors points in
> our
> > interest yesterday
> >
> > 1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from
> Adobe 's
> > softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.
> >
> > 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
> universal
> > access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech
> even in
> > Malayalam Language .
> >
> > 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
> >
> > Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is
> already
> > in media reports.
> >
> > Read a repotrt in TOI
> >
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
> >
> > The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
> > Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
> >
> > Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
> > (http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last to help  them
> in
> > initiating this change process.
> >
> > Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
> > Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
> > initiating this Change.
> >
> > ~ regards
> > Anivar Aravind
> > Secretary
> > Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
> > http://smc.org.in
> > Ph. 09448063780
> >
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Gautam John 
Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

http://www.akshara.org.in/


On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind  wrote:
> Dear all ,
>
> Some happy news for all of us .
>
>
> The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
> Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 majors points in our
> interest yesterday
>
> 1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from Adobe 's
> softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.
>
> 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in universal
> access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech even in
> Malayalam Language .
>
> 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
>
> Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already
> in media reports.
>
> Read a repotrt in TOI
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
>
> The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
> Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
>
> Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
> (http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last to help  them in
> initiating this change process.
>
> Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
> Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
> initiating this Change.
>
> ~ regards
> Anivar Aravind
> Secretary
> Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
> http://smc.org.in
> Ph. 09448063780
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Anivar Aravind 
Dear all ,

Some happy news for all of us .


The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 majors points in our
interest yesterday

1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from Adobe
's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.

2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in universal
access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech even
in Malayalam Language .

3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .

Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already
in media reports.

Read a repotrt in TOI
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms

The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now
Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards

Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (
http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last to help  them in
initiating this change process.

Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer  SCERT , Director SCERT, and
Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala )  for
initiating this Change.

~ regards
Anivar Aravind
Secretary
Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
http://smc.org.in
Ph. 09448063780
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